With a Bow and a Beat

If, like me, you got lucky and were enrolled in a K-12 school system with a music budget, you may have a memory of the day everyone was trotted down to the cafegymnatorium and told to select an instrument. It was so competitive! Kevin Olusola is doing more than his part to recruit kids to the cello section. There are more-than-respectable Justin Bieber covers here, people! But if you’re like me, you’re going to want to skip that for now and catch the beatboxing below at @1:06, I’m thinking.

Blogger Book Club #2
June 22-26, 2009: The bloggers start in on this summer’s non-required reading list and discuss The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey.

Blogger Book Club #3
July 27-31, 2009: The MTG Blogger think tank reads The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt and considers how the performing arts are embracing technology and social networking for better and worse.

Blogger Book Club #4
November 15-19, 2010: Curious about the cultural impact of the technological explosions rocking our 21st-century lives? The Mind the Gap book club is back to read and reflect on Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants.